Benefit set for teacher battling cancer

VICKSBURG -- A cancer fundraiser for Martha Sweet-Phelps, longtime teacher at Child's Play Learning Center in Vicksburg, will be from 4-10 p.m. Thursday, July 14, at Texas Roadhouse in Portage.

The event is to help her pay for expenses related to her cancer treatment for Stage 4 lymphoma. There will be a raffle at the event, and the restaurant will donate 10 percent of all food purchases toward Sweet-Phelps' expenses.

Additional donations for the raffle and a future silent auction are still being accepted.